#sentenceoftheday #johnmcphee #amreadingnonfiction #booksky "I learned 2 pronounce Suisun 'Sue Soon' & Mokelumne 'McCollum Me' & -- from Dale Sweetnam of CA Fish & Game -- that 4 salmon runs @ yr were going thru the delta . . . all chinook, the king salmon, largest of the 5 North American species."
#amreadingnonfiction #thebrontemyth #booksky #charlottebronte #womenwriters "... as a woman writing in an age in w/c 'authoresse' were 'liable to be looked upon w prejudice, it was expedient to disguise herself under a male-sounding pseudonym if she was to make her work public." --Lucasta Miller
#amreadingnonfiction #thebrontemyth #booksky #sentenceoftheday Altho the father, Patrick & the brother, Branwell "have been enshrined . . . in the Madame Tussaud's of the collective psyche, they would never have bcome famous had it not been 4 the literary achievements of the women in their family."
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"All this should make me happy, but it's hard to relax."
16. Recent 5-star read
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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